High speed driving of a gain-switched laser diode with an exponential transmission line

Author

Li, Zheng ; Su, Yilcai ; Tang, Yueping

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Beijing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut., China

Volume

11

Issue

9

fYear

1996

fDate

9/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

4

Lastpage

7

Abstract

With the increase of information capacity of an airborne system, high speed driving of laser diodes have been of interest. In order to match the low resistive LD, proposed in this paper is an exponential transmission line, which is used as preshaping to compensate the pattern effect in gain switching of laser diodes. It also will be used to overcome the effect of parasitic elements in high speed driving to improve the rise and trail edges of the output waveform. An accurate circuit model of the exponential line for the PSPICE program has been developed and simulations are conveniently carried out by employing PSPICE

Keywords

SPICE; aircraft communication; circuit analysis computing; driver circuits; equivalent circuits; optical fibre communication; semiconductor device models; semiconductor lasers; transmission line theory; waveform analysis; PSPICE program; airborne system; circuit model; exponential transmission line; gain switching; gain-switched laser diode; high speed driving; laser diodes; low resistive LD; output waveform; parasitic elements; pattern effect; rise edges; trail edges; Circuit simulation; Diode lasers; Distributed parameter circuits; Impedance; Optical pulses; Pattern matching; Power transmission lines; Pulse transformers; SPICE; Transmission lines;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8985

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/62.536796

Filename

536796